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A jury on Friday acquitted a Delray Beach man of DUI manslaughter but convicted him of five counts of drunken driving in a March 1997 crash that killed an elderly woman and injured three others. Joseph D'Angelo, 41, was released on bond pending his sentencing hearing next month. On March 16, 1997, officials said, D'Angelo was driving west on West Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach when witnesses saw him speed through a red light at Military Trail, almost causing a crash. D'Angelo sped through a second red light and ran his 1990 Plymouth Voyager van into a car driven by Norman Goldstein, 77, who was attempting to turn left into the Carnival Flea Market.

State troopers got their man. For the past week, Joseph M. D'Angelo had eluded arrest on charges of DUI manslaughter in the death of a Delray Beach woman in March after he failed to surrender, as he said he would. So troopers waited for him on Monday in the South County Courthouse, where he was scheduled to appear on an unrelated charge of driving with a suspended license. D'Angelo was booked into the county jail and held without bail. Please see story, 3B.

WINE TASTING/ TUSCAN: Taste the Wines of Tuscany at Cucina d' Angelo, 5050 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 6:30 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. The evening will feature a five-course Tuscan dinner paired with wines such as Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino, Sangiovese, Trebbiano and Vernaccia. There will also be a Tuscan travel presentation by Fugazy International Travel/American Express of Boca Raton. The event is $50 per person. Call 561-750-2344 for reservations or visit Cucina D'Angelo at Boca Center or www.cucinadangelo.

A Coral Springs man was killed in a one-car accident early Wednesday. Shaun D'Angelo, 18, was pronounced dead about 3 a.m. at the scene in Coral Springs. D'Angelo was northbound in the 4800 block of Coral Springs Drive at high speed, lost control of his 1993 Nissan and struck a tree and light pole. He was alone in the car. No one else was hurt. Coral Springs police are investigating. Anyone who witnessed the accident is asked to call Officer Joe Barbuto at 954-346-1276.

Clerics with the Archdiocese of Miami first documented allegations of sexual abuse against Father Rocco D'Angelo in August 1966. But he kept working as a priest for the next three decades. A mother brought one of her sons to see a church monsignor and told him about a disturbing incident in a Boynton Beach motel room where D'Angelo, then 43 and an assistant pastor, kissed several boys he had invited to spend the night. "Later in the parish he made some advances on one of her sons," John Fitzpatrick, then the chancellor of the diocese, wrote to Bishop Coleman Carroll.

A family a block away from a relative's home where they were driving for dessert and coffee was forever changed when a BMW collided with them. Mother and daughter Angelina Ferrarella, 85, and Donna D'Angelo, 54, were killed and five others injured in the two-vehicle accident west of Boca Raton on Friday, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. "We're all just in survival mode. We're a tight, loving family; we're just trying to keep each other afloat," said Violet Salvietti, whose husband, Vincent Salvietti, is Ferrarella's grandson and D'Angelo's nephew.

The Florida Highway Patrol on Monday arrested a Delray Beach man wanted on charges of killing an elderly woman and injuring three others in March while driving drunk, according to Florida Highway Patrol reports. Joseph M. D'Angelo had planned to surrender at the Palm Beach County Jail last week but never showed up. A warrant was issued for his arrest, but Highway Patrol investigator Perry Allen had an idea on Monday on how to catch him. D'Angelo, 39, was at the South County Courthouse in Delray Beach that morning for a hearing on an unrelated charge of driving with a suspended license, Perry said.

TROUBLE MAN: The Life and Death of Marvin Gaye. Steve Turner. Ecco. $24. 259 pp. Sixteen years after his shocking death, the lurid details of Marvin Gaye's life are as familiar as his breathtaking vocals on such classics as Let's Get It On or I Heard It Through the Grapevine. He was a magnificent singer, a moving songwriter, and a major influence on artists from Stevie Wonder to D'Angelo. But for every sweet song, there are the sour notes in the tormented life of a man vexed by drugs, familial discord, and battles between the strength of his spirit and the weakness of his flesh.

Behind those peaceful green fairways at Cooper Colony Golf and Country Club, a battle is brewing over brewskies. The club's golf pro, Billy D'Angelo, has been giving away beer and soda to promote his new driving range. That tees off Fran Baur, owner of the golf course's clubhouse restaurant. "He's taking my business away," said Baur, who spent $50,000 in the past year to remodel Fran's Savannah Cafe. "I never see the people on the driving range come in here anymore." D'Angelo and Baur hold leases at the 18-hole executive golf course at 5050 SW 90th Ave. Baur said her 13-year lease gives her the exclusive right to sell food and beverages throughout the golf course.